Nina Foch
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Awards
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Academy Awards [1955] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Supporting Actress National Board of Review, USA [1954] (Won/Nominated: Won)
Star on the Walk of Fame Walk of Fame (Won/Nominated: Won)
 

Nina Foch Biography
Nina Foch was born on April 20, 1924. Her mother was American actress Consuela Flowerton, who returned to the U.S. after her marriage to Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock; they divorced when Nina was a toddler. Growing up in New York, her mother encouraged her artistic talent. She played the piano and enjoyed art, but was more interested in acting.

Foch`s movie fame came during the height of the 1940s when she played cool, aloof and often foreign women of sophistication. She ultimately would be featured in over 80 feature films and hundreds of television shows.

The actress was a regular in John Houseman`s Playhouse 90 television series. In 1951, she appeared with Gene Kelly in the award-winning musical An American in Paris.

Foch later played Marie Antoinette in Scaramouche. Another noteworthy role came as Bithiah in Cecil B. DeMille`s The Ten Commandments, in which she played the Pharaoh`s daughter who found the baby Moses in the bullrushes and adopted him as her son. She was actually a year younger than Charlton Heston, who played Moses.

Foch was nominated for an Academy Award for her supporting role in the 1954 boardroom drama Executive Suite, starring William Holden.

She appeared in 1960`s Spartacus opposite Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier as a woman who chooses gladiators to fight to the death in the ring, simply for her entertainment.

In 1975, she appeared in the film Mahogany starring Diana Ross.

She was cast as "Eva Frazier" in the Outer Limits episode "The Borderland".

On television, she was cast as the first murder victim of the Columbo mystery series starring Peter Falk, appearing in the pilot movie, Prescription: Murder (1968), with Gene Barry as her husband, a homicidal psychiatrist.

More recently, she appeared on the television series Just Shoot Me, Bull and NCIS.

Nina Foch currently teaches "Directing the Actor" at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she has taught since the 1960s. She also works as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many prominent Hollywood directors. She lives in Beverly Hills, California, as she has for forty years, and has one child, a son, Dr. Dirk de Brito.

Foch`s first husband was James Lipton of Inside the Actor`s Studio fame.

Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Foch
 

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    Name Nina Foch
    (Nina Consuelo Maud Fock)
    Other Name(s) Nina Consuelo Maud Fock Lipton Brite Dewell
    Height 5' 9"  (175 cm)
    Build Slim
    Hair Color Blonde
    Date of Birth April 20, 1924
    Birthplace Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
    Star Sign Aries
    Died December 5, 2008 (Aged 84)
    Location of Death Los Angeles, California
    Cause of Death complications of myelodysplasia
    Nationality Dutch
    Ethnicity White
    Occupation Actress
    Celebrity Index Ni
    Claim to Fame Executive Suite

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  • Last name Foch is pronounced like "Gosh".
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  • Ex-daughter-in-law of Lawrence Lipton.
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  • Born in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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  • (2006) Currently plays actor `David McCallum``s mother in the popular TV show, "Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service" (2003).
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  • Spouse: Michael Dewell (31 October 1967 - 1993) (divorced); Dennis Brite (27 November 1959 - 1963) (divorced) 1 child; James Lipton (12 June 1954 - 1959) (divorced)
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  • Played the first person to be murdered in the long-running series `Columbo`, in the pilot episode `Prescription: Murder`.
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  • Ex-daughter-in-law of Lawrence Lipton.
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  • In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by Rosetta Calavetta, but was also dubbed by Lidia Simoneschi (in My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)); Rina Morelli (in The Ten Commandments (1956)) and Giovanna Scotto.
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  • Last name "Foch" rhymes with "Gosh".
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  • Daughter of Dirk Fock, conductor of the Amsterdams Concertgebouworkest, and actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton.
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